Release date : August 1996 (Experimenting Edition) - (Clan War (Imperial ERA)).

AEG Product.

Number of cards : 306. 

100 C / 100 U / 100 R / 6 Stronghold (cut from back starter deck).

Specifications :

-cards are marbled black border, no stripe.

-There’s 1 Variant card.

-No Foil cards.

Sold AS : boosters (15 cards boosters), six 60 card starter decks (Crab, Crane, Dragon, Lion, Phoenix, Unicorn).

Note : 

Before Obsidian Edition, the stronghold cards weren't printed with the deck, but as a kind of "promos" on the back of the starter deck. They were also printed as real fixed cards in Obsidian Edition but with the Emerald Edition type border.

This special second base set includes a "Ancestral Armors" for each clan.